Henry IV Flashcards
Act 1 Scene 1 - Henry
“whilst i by looking on the praise of him, see riot and dishonour stain the brow of my young Harry”
Act 1 Scene 2 - Hal (short)
“i know you all”
Act 1 Scene 2 - Hal (med)
“yet herein will i imitate the sun, who doth permit the base contagious clouds to smother up his beauty from the world”
Act 1 Scene 2 - Hal (long)
“when this loose behaviour i throw off, and i pay the debt i never promised, by how much better than my word i am, by so much shall i falsify men’s hope”
Act 1 Scene 3 - Henry to Worcester
“my blood hath been too cold and temperate, unapt to stir these indignities”
Act 1 Scene 3 - Hotspur
“same sword-and-buckler Prince of Wales but I think his father loves him not”
Act 2 Scene 4 - Prank
“I am so good a proficient in one quarter of an hour that i can drink with any tinker in his own language during my life”
Act 2 Scene 4 - Play within a Play
“i do i will”
Act 3 Scene 2 - Henry to Hal 1
“grew a companion to the common streets, enfeoffed himself to popularity”
Act 3 Scene 2 - Henry to Hal 2
“standest thou, for thou hast lost thy princely privilege with vile participation”
Act 3 Scene 2 - Hal
“I will redeem all this on Percy’s head and in the closing of some glorious day be bold to tell you that i am your son”
Act 3 Scene 3 - Hal at tavern
“I am good friends with my father and may do anything” followed by giving out orders
Act 5 Scene 1 - Henry
“then with the losers let it sympathise, for nothing can seem foul to those that win”
Act 5 Scene 1 - Hal
“in both your armies there is many a soul, shall pay full dearly for this”
Act 5 Scene 2 - Falstaff
“honour is a mere scutcheon - and so it ends my catechism”
Act 5 Scene 3 - Hal and Falstaff
“what, is it a time to jest and dally now?”
Act 5 Scene 4 - Henry
“thou hast redeemed thy lost opinion and showed thou mak’st some tender of my life”
Act 5 Scene 4 - Hal
“two stars keep not their motion in one sphere”
Act 5 Scene 4 - Hotspur and Hal
“and food for”
“for worms, brave Percy”
Act 5 Scene 5 - Hal
“go to Douglas and deliver him up to his pleasure, ransomless and free”
Act 1 Scene 3 - Hotspur Final
“O, let the hours be short, till fields and blows, and groans applaud our sport!”
“whilst i by looking on the praise of him, see riot and dishonour stain the brow of my young Harry”
Act 1 Scene 1
Henry
- negative connotations
- metaphorical reference to Hal’s drinking/stealing (tavern life) and how this doesn’t live up to Henry’s expectations
“i know you all”
Act 1 Scene 2
Hal Soliloquy
- emphasis on personal pronouns
- contrasts tavern with blank verse (iambic pentameter)
- provides visible contrast between tavern and court
“yet herein will i imitate the sun, who doth permit the base contagious clouds to smother up his beauty from the world”
Act 1 Scene 2
Hal Soliloquy
- celestial metaphor
- “sun” is a symbol of royalty (sheer influence)
“when this loose behaviour i throw off, and i pay my debt i never promised, by how much better than my word i am, by so much shall i falsify men’s hope”
Act 1 Scene 2
Hal Soliloquy
- analogy of his behaviour/deception
- uses economic language
- outlines his political strategy and understands he is a future person of power (Prince and King)
“my blood hath been too cold and temperate, unapt to stir these indignities”
Act 1 Scene 3
Henry to Worcester
- irony (he broke the lineage but is preaching it)
- not strict enough leader
“same swords-and-bucklers Prince of Wales, but i think his father loves him not”
Act 1 Scene 3
Hotspur
- sibilance provides a mocking tone
- indirect relationship between Hal and Hotspur
“O let the hours be short, till fields, and blows, and groans applaud our sport!”
Act 1 Scene 3
Hotspur final line
- tricolon
- synecdoche
- reveals Hotspur’s naive attitude, comparing betrayal/war to sport
“i am so great a proficient in a quarter of an hour that i can drink with any tinker in his own language during my life”
Act 2 Scene 4
Hal
- emphasis on personal pronouns
- boasting of his Machiavellian qualities
“grew a companion to the common streets, enfeoffed himself to popularity”
Act 3 Scene 2
Henry
- metaphor
- unfavourably compares Hal to Richard
“standest thou, for thou hast lost thy princely privilege with vile participation”
Act 3 Scene 2
Henry
- plossive alliteration
“i will redeem all this on Percy’s head, and in the closing of some glorious day be bold to tell you that i am your son”
Act 3 Scene 2
Hal
- emphasis on personal pronouns (seeks approval, forgiveness and respect)
- uses this as motivation to change
- aware of his duties of Prince and Henry’s son
“then with the losers, let it sympathise, for nothing can seem foul to those that win”
Act 5 Scene 1
Henry
- high modality language
- politically duplicitous
- all about winning
“in both your armies, there are many a soul, shall pay full dearly for this”
Act 5 Scene 1
Hal
- high modality language
- tries to impress his father by preventing war
“honour is a mere scutcheon - and so it ends my catechism”
Act 5 Scene 2
Falstaff
- metaphor
- religious connotations (ironic)
- “honour” has empty rhetoric
- “scutcheon” refers to painted coat of arms displayed at a funeral
“two stars keep not their motion in one sphere”
Act 5 Scene 4
Hal
- celestial metaphor for what has been happening
“and food for”
“for worms, brave Percy”
Act 5 Scene 4
Hal and Hotspur
- metaphor
- symbolic of how Hal has finished everything Hotspur set out to do (including his final words)
“thou hads’t redeemed thy lost opinion and showed thou maks’t some tender for my life”
Act 5 Scene 4
Henry
- Emotive language
- Henry forgives Hal
- Grateful for the intervention by Hal
“Go to Douglas and deliver him up to his pleasure, ransomless and free”
Act 5 Scene 5
Hal
- imperative
- final sight of his transformation
- insight into his political scheme
“i do i will”
Act 2 Scene 4
Hal
- use of metafiction
- assertion with repeated pronouns provides insight into the transformation that will occur soon
“i am good friends with my father and may do anything”
Act 3 Scene 3
Hal
- emphasis on personal pronouns
- high modality language
- shows his transformation
“what, is it a time to jest and dally now?”
Act 5 Scene 3
Hal to Falstaff
- irony
- measure of the change in their relationship
